I do. I saturate my hair with conditioner and then detangle before I wash my hair. Unlike many, detangling wet hair is not for me..
When I saw the heading, before I read the first post, this is what I was going to say. Back in 2008 when I went to bed with loose hair and had to deal with tangles, I used a method I learned from Happily Me which was to apply conditioner to dry hair and finger detangle. It worked very well. So I thought that's what you were asking. Like if you hadn't combed your hair for a week and had it tangled and wanted to detangle...that's how I'd do it.
Now the way your post OP went made me go.....NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
coz I realized that you're talking about ending a wash then detangling. I don't even think that's possible where I'm concerned. I do not entertain knots or tangles or even try to get acquainted with them. Coz if I am about to wet my hair to wash, it will have no tangles and I can bet my bottom dollar I will not get any tangles during the wash or after drying that will need to be dealt with at the end. I make certain of that by keeping it braided throughout the wash, only undoing at each step to comb through the fully detangled hair, then locking it back in braids before going to the next wash step. At the end, I finish with the detangled hair in braids that do not get disturbed until my hair is fully dry, at which time, my stands are parallel and stretched and can even be combed dry, if I wanted to.